Dozens of healthcare providers and organizations urged the federal government Wednesday to grant Arkansas officials’ request for two years to come up with a new Medicaid expansion model. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services verbally denied a five-year extension of the Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me, or ARHOME. The Department of Human […]

The Trump administration’s decision not to renew Arkansas’ hybrid Medicaid expansion is alarming medical providers and experts who say the loss of insurance for thousands would be devastating and would damage a state healthcare system already facing serious strains. The disclosure Friday by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office has created uncertainty for a first-in-the-nation program […]